10 Reasons Batman Forever Is Better Than Any Other Batman Movie

Question. Which of the Batman movies has the Batmobile grapple up the side of a building, destroying random henchmen vehicles in its wake? Answer. Only Batman Forever.

Throughout its 2 hour runtime the hits keep coming in terms of action, all perfectly paced for continued enjoyment. Although as the series progressed, other Bat flicks boasted more visually impressive spectacles, none were half as fun as watching Tommy Lee Jones trying to bazooka Val Kilmer to an early grave.

With other Batman movies, you were given time to settle into the mythos of the Batman and has impact on Gotham City. A glimpse of a shadow here, a discarded Batarang there, Batman Forever throws this totally out of the window for the best and delivers a knockout action punch straight off the (ahem) bat.

The Genius of the safe cracking, Gotham Lady Liberty destroying sequence in the first five minutes is that any age of movie-goer is gripped from the beginning with no illusions about what type of film they've walked into. No subtle nods: this is Batman, he's a hero, this is his ridiculously awesome movie.